1 David Dion DeGrazia (born: July 20, 1962) Senior Research Fellow Department of Bioethics National Institutes of Health Building 10, Room 1C-118 Bethesda, MD 20814 [email protected] & Elton Professor of Philosophy George Washington University Rome Hall 566 Washington, DC 20052 [email protected] ACADEMIC DEGREES Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1989, Georgetown University (4.0 GPA); comprehensive exams in ethical theory, bioethics, and epistemology (all passed with distinction); dissertation: Interests, Intuition, and Moral Status, supervised by Tom Beauchamp M.Stud. in Philosophy, 1987, Oxford University; moral philosophy with James Griffin, Wittgenstein with David Pears B.A. with a major in Philosophy, 1983, University of Chicago (Phi Beta Kappa); thesis advisor: A.W.H. Adkins; freshman and sophomore years at the University of Maryland, College Park (Honors Program) AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF COMPETENCE Ethical Theory Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Sciences Biomedical Ethics Wittgenstein Personal Identity Theory History of Analytic Philosophy Epistemology History of Modern Philosophy PUBLICATIONS Books • A Theory of Bioethics, with Joseph Millum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021) • Principles of Animal Research Ethics, with Tom Beauchamp (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) • Debating Gun Control: How Much Regulation Do We Need? with Lester Hunt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) • Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012; paperback edition, 2014) 2 • Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy, 8th ed., coedited with Thomas A. Mappes and Jane S. Zembaty (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012) • Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) [Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006] • Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002); Japanese translation (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2003); Hungarian translation (Budapest: Magyar Vilag Kiado, 2004); Bosnian translation (Sarajevo: BTC Sahinpasic, 2005); Turkish translation (Ankara: Kasim, 2006); Korean translation (Dong Moon Sun, 2007); English-Chinese bilingual edition (Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2008); French translation, 2012: Arabic translation, 2014) • Biomedical Ethics, 7th ed., coedited with Thomas A. Mappes and Jeffrey Brand-Ballard (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011); 6th ed., coedited with Mappes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006); 5th ed., coedited with Mappes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001); 4th ed., coedited with Mappes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996) • Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Journal Special Issues (guest editor) • Moving Forward in Animal Research Ethics, coedited with Tom Beauchamp, in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (October 2015): 385-472 • Regarding Animals: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Use in Biomedical Research, in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 27 (4) (October 2006): 277-395 Journal Articles (including titled review essays and commentaries) • “On the Possibility of Invertebrate Sentience,” Animal Sentience (2020) • “Regulating International Clinical Research: An Ethical Framework for Policy Makers, BMJ Global Health 5 (2020) (first published online: doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002287) • “Can Knowledge Itself Justify Harmful Research?” (with Jeff Sebo), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 29 (2020): 302-307 • “Value Theory, Beneficence, and Medical Decision-Making,” American Journal of Bioethics 20 (3) (2020): 71-73 • “Beyond the 3 Rs to a More Comprehensive Framework of Principles for Animal Research Ethics” (with Tom Beauchamp), ILAR Journal (2019): 1-10 (published first online doi: 10.1093/ilar/ilz011) • “Human-Animal Chimeras, ‘Human’ Cognitive Capacities, and Moral Status,” Hastings Center Report 49 (5) (2019): 33-34 • “Ethics of Patient Activation: Exploring its Relation to Personal Responsibility, Autonomy, and Health Disparities” (with Sophie Gibert and Marion Danis), Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (2017): 670-675 • “On Saving Preterm Infants: A Plea for Sensible Ontology,” American Journal of Bioethics 17 (8) (2017): 36-37 • “Reflections on the Procreative Asymmetry,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 16 (2) (2017): 1-4 3 • “Defining the Boundaries of a Right to Adequate Protection: A New Lens on Pediatric Research Ethics” (with Michelle Groman and Lisa Lee), Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (2017; published online first doi:101093/jmp/jhw038) • “Relieving Pain using Dose-Extending Placebos: A Scoping Review” (with Luana Colloca and Paul Enck), Pain 157 (2016): 1590-98; also “Reply” (to a Letter to the Editor) by the same authors, Pain 158 (2017): 361-362 • “Nonhuman Primates, Human Need, and Ethical Constraints,” The Hastings Center Report 46 (4) (2016): 27-28 • “Sentient Nonpersons and the Disvalue of Death,” Bioethics 30 (2016): 511-519 • “Parents of Adults with Diminished Self-Governance: Unique Responsibilities” (coauthored with Jennifer DeSante and Marion Danis), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 25 (2016): 93-107 • “Modal Personhood and Moral Status: A Reply to Kagan’s Proposal,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (2016): 22-25 • “Reassessing Animal Research Ethics” (with Tom Beauchamp), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (October 2015): 385-389 • “Necessary Conditions of Morally Responsible Animal Research” (with Jeff Sebo), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (October 2015): 420-430 • “Ethical Reflections on Genetic Enhancement with the Aim of Enlarging Altruism,” Health Care Analysis (2015) (doi 10.1007/s10728-015-0303-1). • “A Reply to Critics of Creation Ethics,” Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (2015): 423-24. • “Handguns, Moral Rights, and Physical Security,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 2014 (doi 10.1163/17455243-4681055) • “The Case for Moderate Gun Control, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24 (March 2014): 1-25 • “Persons, Dolphins, and Moral Status,” American Journal of Bioethics 14 (2) (2014): 17- 18 • “On the Moral Status of Infants and the Cognitively Disabled: A Reply to Jaworska and Tannenbaum,” Ethics 124 (2014): 543-556 • “Moral Improvement, Freedom, and What We (Should) Value in Moral Behavior,” Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (2014): 361-68 (published online first, January 2013) [feature article followed by four commentaries] • Precis for “Author Meets Critics” on Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life in Journal of Medical Ethics 2013 (published online first: doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-10191) • “On the Wrongness of Killing” (commentary on Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Franklin Miller, “What Makes Killing Wrong,” Journal of Medical Ethics 39, January 2013) • “Disability and Disadvantage through the Lens of Value Theory,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 11 (published online spring 2012) • “Genetic Enhancement, Post-persons, and Moral Status: Author Reply to Commentaries,” Journal of Medical Ethics 38 (2012): 145-147 • “Genetic Enhancement, Post-persons, and Moral Status: A Reply to Buchanan,” Journal of Medical Ethics 38 (2012): 135-139 [feature article followed by commentaries by Allen Buchanan and three other scholars, and then by my reply] 4 • “Is it Wrong to Impose the Harms of Human Life? A Reply to Benatar,” Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics 31 (2010): 317-331 • “Suffering, Identity, and Progressive Dementia,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 9 (1) (fall 2009): 23-27 • “Just(ice) in Time for Future Generations,” George Washington University Law Review 77 (5/6) (September 2009): 1216-1236 • “Moral Vegetarianism From a Very Broad Basis,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 6 (2) (2009): 143-165 • “Moral Status as a Matter of Degree?” Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (2) (2008): 181-198 • “Single Payer Meets Managed Competition: The Case for Public Funding and Private Delivery,” Hastings Center Report 38 (1) (2008): 23-33 [feature article followed by three commentaries] • “Must We Have Full Moral Status Throughout Our Existence? A Reply to Alfonso Gomez-Lobo,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17 (4) (2007): 297-310 • “The Harm of Death, Time-Relative Interests, and Abortion,” Philosophical Forum 38 (1) (2007): 57-80 • “Human-Animal Chimeras: Human Dignity, Moral Status, and Species Prejudice,” Metaphilosophy 38 (2-3) (April 2007): 309-329 o Reprinted in Lori Gruen, Laura Grabel, and Peter Singer (eds.), Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007): 168-187 • “The Limits of ‘What All Rational People Agree To’,” a review of Bernard Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, in Medical Humanities Review 19 (1-2) (2007): 20-24. • “Regarding Animals: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Use in Biomedical Research: An Introduction to the Special Issue,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 27 (4) (October 2006): 277-284 • “Moral Status, Human Identity, and Early Embryos: A Critique of the President’s Approach,” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 34 (1) (Spring 2006): 49-57 • “Regarding the Last Frontier of Bigotry,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture 4 (2) (Spring 2005) • “Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (June 2005): 261-283 • “Common Morality for Better or Worse,” a review of Baruch Brody, Taking Issue: Pluralism and Casuistry in Bioethics, in Medical Humanities Review 17 (2) (fall 2004): 52-56 • “Liberal Bioethics and Contested Surgeries”(commentary on Arthur W. Frank, “Emily’s Scars: Surgical Shaping, Technoluxe, and Bioethics”), Hastings Center